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No Budget, No Pay Act

This bill requires the salaries of North Carolina General Assembly members to be held in escrow (set aside) if the legislature does not pass a budget for fiscal year 2026-2027 by June 30, 2026. The withheld pay would be released once a budget is ratified or the legislative session ends.

Senate2026-05-06

S1015Introduced

Child Care Omnibus

This bill makes sweeping changes to North Carolina's child care system by increasing subsidy payment rates to the 75th percentile, establishing a $110 million recurring funding stream, creating multiple pilot programs for child care access, establishing a new North Carolina Child Care Finance Agency to help fund child care facility construction, and providing tax exemptions and subsidies for certain worker categories including child care employees.

Senate2026-05-05

S986Introduced

Workforce Act of 2026

The Workforce Act of 2026 appropriates approximately $8.85 million to expand North Carolina's workforce development programs, including apprenticeships, industry-recognized credentials, short-term training grants, and career information resources. The bill also funds technology improvements to make it easier for students to transfer credits between colleges and universities.

Senate2026-05-05

S1061Introduced

Protect Moms Who Serve

This bill directs the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services to conduct a study on health issues affecting women who serve in the military, with a focus on maternity care, mental health, and reducing maternal mortality. The department will work with the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, gather input from military mothers, and report findings and legislative recommendations by April 1, 2027. The bill appropriates $100,000 for this study.

Senate2026-05-05

S987Introduced

Lower Healthcare Costs

This bill creates a special fund to help state employees and teachers maintain their take-home pay when health insurance premiums increase. It transfers $150 million from the Opportunity Scholarship Grant Fund Reserve to pay for premium supplements, ensuring employees' net income doesn't decline due to higher health plan costs.

Senate2026-05-05

S988Introduced

Protecting Workers in the Age of AI Act

This bill creates a new AI Workforce Transition Program within the Department of Commerce to help workers displaced by artificial intelligence and automation through job retraining, credentialing, and education programs. It requires employers receiving state economic incentives to report layoffs caused by AI or automation, and appropriates $50 million in existing state funds to support these workforce transition initiatives.

Senate2026-05-05

S950Introduced

School Meals for Every Child

This bill requires all public schools in North Carolina to provide free breakfast and lunch to every student. The state would appropriate $116 million annually starting in 2026-2027 to fund these meals, with the State Board of Education distributing funds to school districts based on factors like school size and number of low-income students.

Senate2026-05-04

S962Introduced

Investing in North Carolina Act

This bill appropriates funds to increase salaries for public school teachers, state employees, community college workers, and UNC employees for the 2026-2027 fiscal year, and provides cost-of-living increases for retirees. The bill only takes effect if the state's regular budget (Current Operations Appropriations Act) does not pass, and it also establishes automatic 5% salary increases for future years if budgets continue to fail to pass.

Senate2026-05-04

S949Introduced

Fully Fund School Psychologists & Counselors

This bill appropriates $359.3 million in annual state funding to hire additional school psychologists and counselors in North Carolina public schools. The goal is to achieve statewide ratios of at least one school psychologist per 700 students and one school counselor per 250 students, as called for in the Leandro education funding plan.

Senate2026-05-04

S957Introduced

Portable-Scale Solar Energy Devices

This bill allows North Carolina residents to use small portable solar energy devices (up to 1.92 kilowatts) without needing utility company approval or paying installation fees, as long as the devices are primarily for personal use and have safety features. The bill also provides $100,000 in funding to expand the Board of Examiners of Electrical Contractors' public awareness program about electrical code requirements.

Senate2026-05-04

S945Introduced

Safe Camps Act

The Safe Camps Act establishes a statewide permitting and safety program for youth camps in North Carolina. It creates minimum health and safety requirements for youth camps, generally prohibits cabins in floodplains with limited exceptions, requires comprehensive emergency planning and warning systems, and mandates regular inspections. The bill also applies similar floodplain and emergency planning requirements to campgrounds.

Senate2026-04-30

S942Introduced

Reenact EITC

This bill reenacts North Carolina's Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), which had previously expired. The credit allows eligible working individuals to receive a state tax credit equal to a percentage of the federal EITC they qualify for, with the credit being refundable if it exceeds the taxpayer's state income tax liability.

Senate2026-04-30

S912Introduced

Menopause Omnibus

This bill establishes a comprehensive framework to address menopause in North Carolina through four main components: funding menopause research and education, providing tax incentives for doctors to take menopause training, requiring health insurance and Medicaid to cover menopause-related care without cost-sharing, and protecting workers from discrimination based on menopause-related conditions.

Senate2026-04-30

S924Introduced

Reenact the Earned Income Tax Credit

This bill restores North Carolina's state Earned Income Tax Credit, which expired in 2014. The credit would provide eligible low- to moderate-income working individuals a tax refund equal to 5% of the federal Earned Income Tax Credit they receive, with the credit becoming refundable starting in 2026.

Senate2026-04-30

S917Introduced

MELT Act: Support Immigrant Legal Defense

This bill repeals a previous law expanding local jail cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, requires federal immigration officers to obtain judicial warrants (approved by judges based on probable cause) rather than administrative warrants to arrest or detain people in North Carolina, and appropriates $4 million to nonprofit organizations providing legal services to immigrants in removal proceedings and asylum cases.

Senate2026-04-30

S943Introduced

Kids Over Corporations Act

This bill repeals North Carolina's scheduled phase-out of the corporate income tax and sets a permanent corporate income tax rate of 5% instead of allowing it to reach 0%. Currently, the state reduces the corporate tax rate each year, scheduled to eliminate it entirely after 2029. This bill stops that reduction and locks in a 5% rate.

Senate2026-04-30

S935Introduced

Increase Number of Magistrates/Mecklenburg

This bill increases the number of magistrates in Mecklenburg County from 38.5 to 43.5 positions and appropriates $236,140 in recurring annual funding to hire five additional magistrates. The bill takes effect July 1, 2026.

Senate2026-04-30

S944Introduced

Keep Families Fed Act

This bill appropriates $6 million in recurring state funding to six regional food banks across North Carolina, beginning in fiscal year 2026-2027. The funding is intended to address food insecurity and ensure these programs continue operating regardless of annual budget passage.

Senate2026-04-30

S899Introduced

School Mental Health Support Act

This bill establishes two programs to increase mental health support in North Carolina schools and recruit mental health workers to underserved areas. It appropriates $50 million for school mental health grants to public school units and $50 million for a loan repayment program for mental health professionals working in high-need areas.

Senate2026-04-30

S904Introduced

Save SNAP Act

This bill appropriates $16 million and $69 million in state funds to the Department of Health and Human Services to replace lost federal funding for SNAP administrative costs due to changes in federal law (Public Law 119-21). It also appropriates $10 million for grants to develop projects aimed at reducing SNAP payment errors.

Senate2026-04-30

S906Introduced

MOMnibus 3.5

MOMnibus 3.5 is a comprehensive maternal health bill that allocates $20.5 million to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity, particularly among Black women in North Carolina. It establishes grant programs for community organizations, requires implicit bias training for perinatal healthcare providers, funds lactation support training at historically Black colleges and universities, and creates a mobile health initiative to improve access to maternal care in underserved areas.

Senate2026-04-30

S875Introduced

No Firearm Possession After DV Misdemeanors

This bill prohibits people convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence offenses from purchasing or possessing firearms. It expands the definition of domestic violence relationships to include intimate partners, and appropriates $1 million for a domestic violence education program.

Senate2026-04-29

S865Introduced

Restore Benefits to Educators/State Employees

This bill restores several benefits and compensation for North Carolina educators and state employees beginning in the 2026-2027 fiscal year. It reinstates education-based salary supplements for teachers, restores longevity payments (annual bonuses based on years of service), preserves retiree medical benefits for educators hired after January 1, 2021, and expands the NC Teaching Fellows Program to include one additional higher education institution.

Senate2026-04-29

S870Introduced

Funds for Veterans/HBOT

This bill appropriates $3 million in state funding for fiscal year 2026-2027 to provide free hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) treatment to North Carolina veterans diagnosed with traumatic brain injury (TBI) or posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The funding will be directed to a nonprofit called HBOT 4 HEROES to deliver an estimated 15,000 treatments to approximately 350 veterans, with program oversight and outcome reporting required.

Senate2026-04-29

S840Introduced

Teacher Licensure Modifications

This bill removes testing requirements for entry into teacher preparation programs, allows teachers to pass licensing exams within their first three years of teaching instead of before, permits teachers with positive student growth data to skip exams for permanent licensure, and streamlines out-of-state teacher licensing by requiring only three years of experience and good standing rather than additional testing.

Senate2026-04-29

S850Introduced

Pay Teachers What They're Worth Act

This bill increases teacher salaries across North Carolina using a new monthly salary schedule for the 2026-2027 school year, reinstates education-based salary supplements for teachers with advanced degrees, establishes a $5,000 student teaching grant program to help future teachers during their training, and requires a study on long-term educator compensation strategies. The bill appropriates $1.693 billion in state funding for these initiatives.

Senate2026-04-29

S836Introduced

Domestic Violence Divorce Reform Act

This bill makes three main changes to North Carolina family law: it shortens the separation period required for divorce from one year to six months (with exceptions), allows domestic violence victims to divorce immediately without a separation period if they provide evidence, and eliminates the civil lawsuits for 'alienation of affection' and 'criminal conversation.' The bill also appropriates $3 million to expand family planning education programs.

Senate2026-04-28

S845Introduced

Luggage for Children Placed in Foster Care

This bill requires North Carolina's Department of Health and Human Services to provide new luggage (suitcases, duffel bags, or backpacks) to children entering or currently in foster care when they are removed from a household. The bill appropriates $142,000 in recurring annual funds and $335,880 in one-time funds starting in fiscal year 2026-2027, and requires annual reporting on luggage distribution and any instances where disposable bags were used instead.

Senate2026-04-28

S849Introduced

Real Tickets, Real Fans Act

This bill prohibits the use of bots to purchase tickets, bans the sale of speculative tickets (those not yet owned by the seller), and requires ticket sellers to clearly disclose total prices and seat locations. It also prevents deceptive marketing practices like using entertainer names or logos without permission, and establishes enforcement through the Attorney General with civil penalties up to $15,000 per day of violation.

Senate2026-04-28

S838Introduced

The Frontline Mental Health Support Act

This bill establishes the Frontline Mental Health Support Program to provide free, confidential mental health counseling services to teachers and first responders (including police officers, firefighters, paramedics, 911 dispatchers, and correctional officers) in North Carolina. The bill appropriates $10 million to run the program and $3 million in grants to expand the behavioral health workforce to support it.

Senate2026-04-28

S839Introduced

Price Transparency Act

This bill bans food retailers from using dynamic pricing (varying prices within the same day based on demand or personal data) and prevents anti-competitive mergers in the food industry. It also caps credit card surcharges at 2% and creates a Price Transparency Team in the Department of Justice to track and publicly report prices of groceries and utilities quarterly.

Senate2026-04-28

S831Introduced

25-Year Retirement for First Responders

This bill allows law enforcement officers, firefighters, and emergency medical services personnel in North Carolina to retire with full, unreduced benefits after 25 years of service instead of the current requirement of 30 years or age 55 with 5 years of service. The change applies to both state employees and local government employees and takes effect January 1, 2027.

Senate2026-04-27

S827Introduced

Hate Crimes Prevention Act

This bill expands North Carolina's hate crime laws by increasing penalties for crimes motivated by a victim's race, ethnicity, color, religion, nationality, country of origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, disability, or sexual orientation. It also requires the State Bureau of Investigation to track hate crime statistics, mandates law enforcement training on identifying and reporting hate crimes, and requires prosecutor training on prosecuting hate crimes.

Senate2026-04-23

S785Introduced

Opt-In to Student Health

This bill clarifies which health screenings schools can conduct without parental consent and which require consent. Schools can perform vision, hearing, dental, and developmental screenings without advance consent but must notify parents at the beginning of the school year and share results. The bill also requires schools to obtain parental consent for other health care services and to notify parents before using student well-being questionnaires in grades K-3.

Senate2026-04-23

S783Introduced

School Mental Health Support Act

This bill creates two programs to increase mental health support in North Carolina schools: a $50 million grant program for public school units to hire mental health professionals, and a $19 million loan repayment program that provides up to $15,000 annually to school counselors, psychologists, social workers, and nurses working in high-need areas who graduated from UNC schools.

Senate2026-04-23

S805Introduced

Increase Oral Health Care Access in NC

This bill appropriates $80 million in recurring state funds to increase Medicaid reimbursement rates for dental services, which have not been meaningfully increased since 2008. The goal is to encourage more dentists to accept Medicaid patients and improve access to oral health care for low-income North Carolinians.

Senate2026-04-23

S784Introduced

Ensure Same-Sex Domestic Violence Prot. Order

This bill expands North Carolina's domestic violence protective order law to include same-sex couples by removing language that limits protections to opposite-sex relationships. It also appropriates $500,000 for a public awareness campaign about domestic violence in same-sex relationships.

Senate2026-04-23

S799Introduced

Restore State Emp/Teacher Retiree Med Benefit

This bill restores medical benefits for state employees and teachers who began service on or after January 1, 2021, preventing their elimination under state retirement systems. The bill repeals previous language that would have ended these retiree medical benefits and allocates $2 million in state funding to cover the increased costs of maintaining these benefits.

Senate2026-04-23

S789Introduced

Homes for Heroes

This bill creates two programs to support public servants in North Carolina. First, it establishes a homebuyers' assistance program through the Housing Finance Agency that provides up to $25,000 in down payment and mortgage insurance assistance to first-time homebuyers who work full-time as teachers, law enforcement officers, firefighters, emergency medical services personnel, active duty military members, or veterans. Second, it allows volunteer firefighters and rescue squad workers to claim an income tax credit of up to $5,000 for unreimbursed expenses related to their volunteer work.

Senate2026-04-23

S780Introduced

Modernize Medicaid Primary Care Rates

This bill appropriates $48 million in state funds to increase Medicaid reimbursement rates for primary care services in North Carolina to match Medicare rates, effective July 1, 2026. The increased payments would apply to primary care services as defined by the state's Primary Care Payment Reform Task Force.

Senate2026-04-23

S804Introduced

Fair Maps Act

This bill proposes a constitutional amendment to remove the North Carolina General Assembly and Governor from the redistricting process and establish an independent North Carolina Citizens Redistricting Commission to redraw state legislative and congressional districts after each 10-year census. The commission would be composed of 15 citizens selected through a process designed to ensure partisan and demographic balance, and would follow specific criteria prioritizing equal population representation, constitutional compliance, and community preservation.

Senate2026-04-22

S311Passed

The Law and Order Act

The Law and Order Act makes multiple changes to North Carolina criminal law, including increasing penalties for assaults on utility workers and street racing, creating new offenses for possessing explosives, stealing gift cards, and possessing embalming fluid, enhancing burglary sentences when firearms are involved, and establishing workplace protections against mass picketing. The bill also adds a mitigating factor for impaired driving cases where defendants voluntarily install ignition interlock systems before trial, and shortens the waiting period for misdemeanor expunction from five to three years.

Senate2025-07-09

S124Passed

State Hiring Accessibility and Modernization

This bill modernizes North Carolina's state hiring system by reducing educational barriers to state jobs, streamlining job applications, simplifying job postings, and giving state agencies more flexibility in recruiting, hiring, and compensating employees. It also allows agencies to hire temporary employees permanently and rehire qualified candidates from previous postings without reposting positions.

Senate2025-07-01

S402Engrossed

Allow Lottery Winners To Be Confidential

This bill allows North Carolina lottery winners who win $5 million or more to request that their identity be kept confidential for 90 days after claiming their prize. The winner's name and identifying information would be protected from public disclosure during this period, though certain government agencies (like the IRS and state tax authorities) and debt collection programs would still have access as required by law.

Senate2025-06-24

S110Introduced

North Carolina Work and Save

This bill creates the North Carolina Work and Save Program, a state-facilitated retirement savings program for small business employees, self-employed individuals, and independent contractors who lack access to employer-sponsored retirement plans. The program uses payroll deduction to help workers save through individual retirement accounts (IRAs), modeled after successful public-private partnership structures like the NC 529 College Savings Program.

Senate2025-05-01

S145Introduced

Mecklenburg Transportation Referendum

This bill authorizes Mecklenburg County to hold a referendum asking voters whether to approve an additional 1% local sales tax dedicated to funding roadway and public transportation systems. If approved by voters, 40% of revenue would go to eligible municipalities for road maintenance and improvements, while 60% would support a regional transit authority, with specific requirements for completing the Red Line rail project.

Senate2025-04-07

S584Introduced

Local Govt Transportation System Financing

This bill creates a new Metropolitan Public Transportation Authority that can be established in North Carolina counties with over 1 million residents that border another state and operate a light rail system. It also authorizes local sales tax revenue for public transportation and establishes governance structures, powers, and financial mechanisms for this new authority to finance, operate, and maintain public transportation systems.

Senate2025-04-07

S361Introduced

Protecting First Responders Act

This bill increases criminal penalties for assaulting emergency responders, creates new felony charges for intentionally exposing first responders to fentanyl or harmful chemicals, and appropriates $10.35 million in grants for bulletproof vests and backpack plates for paramedics and EMTs.

Senate2025-04-01

S97Introduced

Support Firefighters Fighting Cancer

This bill adds stomach cancer to the list of cancers presumed to be occupationally related to firefighting under North Carolina's Public Safety Employees' Death Benefits Act. When a firefighter dies from stomach cancer, their death will be legally presumed to have occurred in the line of duty, making their family eligible for death benefits. The bill allocates $500,000 annually for the 2025-2027 fiscal period to cover these benefits.

Senate2025-04-01

S659Introduced

Investing in North Carolina Act

This bill appropriates funds to raise salaries for teachers, state employees, community college and university workers, and provides cost-of-living increases for retirees. It also expands the WAGE$ early childhood educator supplement program to all 100 North Carolina counties and creates a tax credit for small businesses with annual receipts of $8 million or less.

Senate2025-03-26

S704Introduced

The Ronnie Long No Cap Act

The Ronnie Long No Cap Act removes the $750,000 cap on compensation awarded to people exonerated of felonies in North Carolina, allowing them to receive $50,000 per year of wrongful imprisonment. The bill also directs the state to provide Medicaid coverage to exonerees and requires the Department of Adult Correction to offer transition services (housing, employment, sustenance) up to $25,000 per person upon release.

Senate2025-03-26

S483Introduced

The Children First Act

The Children First Act is a comprehensive bill that expands child care affordability through increased subsidies and facility grants, establishes tax credits for employer-provided child care, strengthens child health and safety protections (including regulations on social media, tobacco, vaping, cannabis, and firearms), creates a statewide fetal and infant mortality review team, and funds workforce development programs for child care workers. The bill appropriates over $150 million in funding across multiple initiatives.

Senate2025-03-26

S482Introduced

Don't Tread on Me Act

This bill creates an Individual Freedoms Act that establishes protections against state surveillance, medical privacy requirements, parental authority in education and healthcare, fact-based education standards, and prohibitions on employment/housing discrimination based on political beliefs or medical history. The bill requires that any restrictions on these rights meet a 'compelling state interest' test and use narrowly tailored means.

Senate2025-03-26

S480Introduced

NC Paid Family Leave Insurance Act

This bill creates a new paid family leave insurance program in North Carolina, allowing eligible workers to take up to 12-26 weeks of paid leave per year for reasons including birth/adoption, serious health conditions, caring for family members, and military family situations. The program would be funded through employer payroll contributions starting January 1, 2026, with benefits beginning January 1, 2027, and would replace 90% of wages up to the state average weekly wage and 50% above that amount.

Senate2025-03-26

S588Introduced

Pregnant Workers Protection Act

This bill expands workplace protections for pregnant employees in North Carolina by classifying pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions as a physical impairment under state discrimination law. It requires employers to provide reasonable accommodations for pregnant workers—such as frequent bathroom breaks, modified schedules, seating, and assistance with heavy labor—unless doing so would create undue hardship for the business. The bill also clarifies that pregnancy discrimination protections apply to state employment and housing discrimination cases.

Senate2025-03-26

S563Introduced

The Michael Jordans of Tomorrow Act

This bill creates a comprehensive framework for Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) agreements in North Carolina, allowing student-athletes at universities and high schools to earn money from using their name, image, or likeness for commercial purposes. It establishes a state NIL Clearinghouse, provides tax credits for businesses that pay student-athletes for NIL deals, allows universities to allocate up to $20.5 million annually for direct athlete compensation, and creates a study committee to explore revenue-sharing models.

Senate2025-03-26

S656Introduced

Cosmetic Art Deregulation

This bill removes state licensing requirements for natural hair care services, blow-dry styling, and makeup artistry, allowing people to provide these services after completing a one-time four-hour sanitation course instead. It converts the mandatory natural hair care specialist license into a voluntary certification that is no longer required to practice. The bill also expands where these services can be provided, including in barbershops and other venues beyond traditional cosmetology shops.

Senate2025-03-26

S708Introduced

Working Families Act

This bill makes multiple changes to support working families in North Carolina. It lowers copayments for subsidized child care from 10% to 7% of family income, restores a state child tax credit, increases the minimum wage to $15/hour starting September 1, 2025 and allows cities/counties to set higher local minimum wages, expands property tax relief for homeowners, creates a down payment assistance program for first-time homebuyers in public service jobs (teachers, police, firefighters, military, medics), and establishes a paid family and medical leave insurance program funded through employer and employee payroll contributions.

Senate2025-03-26

S486Introduced

Funds for NC Senior Tar Heel Legislature

This bill appropriates $30,000 per year for the 2025-2027 fiscal period to the Department of Health and Human Services' Division of Aging to support the North Carolina Senior Tar Heel Legislature. The funding becomes available starting July 1, 2025.

Senate2025-03-26

S549Introduced

State Emp. Leave/Bereavement/Pregnancy Loss

This bill provides North Carolina state employees, public school employees, and community college employees with paid leave for pregnancy loss (such as miscarriage or failed fertility procedures) and paid bereavement leave for the death of immediate family members. The bill appropriates $3.8 million total ($1.8 million annually for pregnancy loss leave and $2 million annually for bereavement leave) to fund these new benefits starting July 1, 2025.

Senate2025-03-26

S553Introduced

Save More Tatas Act

This bill expands breast cancer screening coverage requirements for health insurance plans in North Carolina by requiring equal cost-sharing for diagnostic and supplemental breast exams compared to screening mammograms, updates patient notification rules about breast density, and appropriates $3.6 million for the state health plan and $1.5 million for training mammography technologists in rural areas.

Senate2025-03-26

S510Introduced

Menstrual Products Sales Tax Exemption

This bill removes the sales tax from menstrual products including tampons, pads, menstrual cups, and panty liners in North Carolina. The exemption would take effect October 1, 2025, and apply to all future sales of these products.

Senate2025-03-26

S534Introduced

Capital Project Funding at NCA&T/WSSU

This bill appropriates $237.5 million in state capital funding for two major building projects: $125 million for an Agricultural Research Classroom at North Carolina A&T State University and $112.5 million for a Health, Physical Education, and Recreation Complex at Winston-Salem State University. The funds come from the State Capital and Infrastructure Fund and become available starting July 1, 2025.

Senate2025-03-26

S571Introduced

MOMnibus 3.0

MOMnibus 3.0 is a comprehensive maternal health bill that establishes five new programs funded with $20.5 million over two years: grant programs for community organizations serving black women, a required implicit bias training program for perinatal healthcare providers, funding for lactation consultant training at historically black colleges and universities, perinatal education grants for underserved areas, and a mobile maternal health initiative called the Momni-Bus. The bill also establishes patient rights for perinatal care facilities and requires data collection on maternal mortality causes and rates.

Senate2025-03-26

S634Introduced

Kayla's Act: Protecting Dom. Violence Victims

Kayla's Act modifies North Carolina's domestic violence laws in three main ways: it allows statements from witnesses who were prevented from testifying by the accused to be used as evidence in court; it extends the statute of limitations for certain domestic violence misdemeanors to 10 years; and it permits domestic violence victims to testify remotely (outside the defendant's physical presence) in criminal proceedings when certain conditions are met.

Senate2025-03-26

S640Introduced

AI Ethics and Literacy Across Education

This bill requires North Carolina's State Board of Education to develop age-appropriate standards for teaching artificial intelligence in schools from kindergarten through grade 12. The standards must cover AI basics, real-world applications, economic and legal issues, and ethical use including privacy, oversight, and bias awareness. Schools can incorporate this instruction into existing computer science courses.

Senate2025-03-26

S597Introduced

Environmental Justice

This bill requires state environmental agencies to consider the cumulative impact of pollution and development on low-income and minority communities when deciding whether to approve permits for mining, waste management, hazardous waste facilities, air pollution sources, and other industrial projects. It also requires agencies to hold public hearings in affected communities and consider community input before approving new or expanded facilities in areas already burdened by pollution.

Senate2025-03-26

S630Introduced

School Mental Health Support Act

This bill appropriates $50 million to create a School Mental Health Grant Program that funds mental health services in public schools, prioritizing schools serving students with limited access to care. It also appropriates $50 million for a Mental Health Worker Loan Repayment Program that provides up to 20% student debt repayment to mental health professionals working in economically disadvantaged areas of North Carolina.

Senate2025-03-26

S649Introduced

Restore Master's Pay for Teachers & ISP

This bill restores salary supplements for teachers and instructional support personnel who hold master's degrees or doctorates, using the pay policy that was in effect on June 30, 2013. The bill appropriates $8 million in state funding for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to implement these education-based salary increases.

Senate2025-03-26

S560Introduced

Taskforce on Missing BIPOC Women

This bill creates a state task force to study and address the disproportionate number of missing and murdered Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) women and girls in North Carolina. The task force will develop policy recommendations, improve data collection, create awareness campaigns, and ensure law enforcement cultural competency over a three-year period.

Senate2025-03-26

S719Introduced

NC Victims of Crime Assistance Act

This bill creates the North Carolina Victims of Crime Assistance Fund and a competitive grant program administered by the Governor's Crime Commission to award grants up to $1 million to public agencies and nonprofits that provide services to crime victims. The bill funds this program by increasing criminal court costs by $3.50 per case and marriage license fees by $5.00, effective December 1, 2025.

Senate2025-03-26

S742Introduced

Funds for CW Williams Comm. Health Center

This bill appropriates $500,000 in one-time state funding to the C.W. Williams Community Health Center, a nonprofit organization in Mecklenburg County, to help complete construction or development of a full-service community health center. The funds become available on July 1, 2025.

Senate2025-03-26

S611Introduced

Allow Consecutive Remote License Renewals

This bill allows North Carolina drivers with non-REAL ID compliant licenses to renew remotely twice in a row, instead of requiring an in-person renewal after the first remote renewal. REAL ID compliant licenses would continue to follow the existing rule allowing only one remote renewal before requiring an in-person renewal. The change takes effect January 1, 2026.

Senate2025-03-26

S660Introduced

Honoring Sacrifice: NC Veterans Relief Act

This bill provides tax relief to disabled veterans by gradually increasing the home property tax exemption from $45,000 to $500,000 in appraised value, allowing pre-qualification for this benefit, exempting primary vehicles owned by 100% disabled veterans from property tax, and reimbursing local governments for 50% of resulting tax revenue losses. It also establishes a $10 million grant program for veteran housing, infrastructure, and employment initiatives.

Senate2025-03-26

S637Introduced

Ensure Same-Sex Domestic Violence Prot. Order

This bill modifies North Carolina's domestic violence protective order law to ensure that same-sex couples have the same access to protective orders as opposite-sex couples. Currently, the law limits dating relationship protections to opposite-sex couples; this bill removes that gender restriction so same-sex couples can obtain protective orders in dating relationships.

Senate2025-03-26

S741Introduced

Funds for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Library

This bill appropriates $5 million in state funds to the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library Foundation for construction of a new main library building. The funds are one-time nonrecurring appropriations that become available starting July 1, 2025.

Senate2025-03-26

S748Introduced

Teach Critical Thinking in Elementary

This bill requires North Carolina public elementary schools (kindergarten through grade 5) to include instruction in critical thinking as part of their standard curriculum, starting in the 2025-2026 school year. The instruction would teach students to evaluate information rather than simply memorize it.

Senate2025-03-26

S749Introduced

Work Training/Delinquent Child Support

This bill allows courts to order individuals delinquent on child support payments to participate in job search or work-specific training as an alternative to incarceration for contempt of court. Participants must pay a minimum of $50 monthly in child support, complete training within six months, and notify the court of their progress or if they fail to meet attendance requirements.

Senate2025-03-26

S433Introduced

Restore Educator Longevity

This bill restores longevity payments for North Carolina teachers and instructional support personnel based on years of service, providing annual bonuses ranging from 1.5% to 4.5% of base salary. The bill appropriates $140.3 million in state funding for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to implement these payments, which would be paid as a lump sum once per year.

Senate2025-03-25

S441Introduced

Revive High-Need Retired Teachers Program

This bill revives a program that allows retired teachers to return to work in high-need schools without losing their retirement benefits or having their earnings count against them. The program is set to expire on June 30, 2027, and includes provisions allowing retired teachers to maintain health insurance coverage while working in these positions.

Senate2025-03-25

S454Introduced

Community Safety Act

The Community Safety Act appropriates $7.5 million to support law enforcement agencies through grant programs, establishes minimum hiring and training standards for officers, revises use of force policies to classify certain neck restraints as deadly force and require de-escalation tactics, and creates funding for community policing initiatives and detective positions.

Senate2025-03-25

S438Introduced

NC Adopt ERA

This bill would have North Carolina officially ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the U.S. Constitution, which states that equality of rights under the law shall not be denied based on sex. The bill asserts that the ERA already became the 28th Amendment when Virginia became the 38th state to ratify it in 2020, and North Carolina's ratification would affirm this status.

Senate2025-03-25

S436Introduced

Age with Dignity Act (Caregiver Tax Credit)

This bill creates a state income tax credit for North Carolina taxpayers who claim adult dependents on their federal taxes. Taxpayers with qualifying adult relatives (such as elderly parents or disabled adults) can claim a credit of $12,000 per dependent, or $15,000 if the dependent is a military veteran, provided their adjusted gross income is below specified thresholds ($75,000-$150,000 depending on filing status).

Senate2025-03-25

S395Introduced

Disaster Relief Eviction Moratorium Act

This bill allows the Governor to issue an executive order that temporarily prevents residential evictions during a declared state of emergency, if the disaster has caused widespread displacement, job loss, or economic hardship. The moratorium can last up to 90 days initially, with possible extensions up to 180 days total, and the Governor can direct state and federal funds toward rental assistance programs to help both landlords and tenants.

Senate2025-03-25

S406Introduced

Allow ERPOs to Prevent Suicides & Save Lives

This bill creates Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPOs), which allow courts to temporarily remove firearms from people deemed to pose an imminent danger to themselves or others. Family members, law enforcement, health care providers, and others can petition district courts for these orders, which can last up to one year and be renewed. The bill also requires courts to order seizure of firearms from people who fail to surrender them after domestic violence protective orders.

Senate2025-03-25

S398Introduced

Prohibit Weapons at Voting Place

This bill makes it illegal for people to carry or possess dangerous weapons at voting locations, within 100 feet of voting place entrances, or while waiting in line to vote. Violations would be charged as a Class 1 misdemeanor, with an exception for law enforcement officers performing their duties. The law would take effect December 1, 2025.

Senate2025-03-25

S434Introduced

School Workers Fair Pay Act

This bill requires all noncertified public school employees in North Carolina to earn a minimum of $17.00 per hour. The State Board of Education must adjust salary grades accordingly, and the bill appropriates $144.7 million in state funding for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to support this increase.

Senate2025-03-25

S431Introduced

Protect Whistleblower LEOs from Retaliation

This bill requires law enforcement officers to intervene when they observe excessive force or other improper conduct, and to report such conduct to supervisors within 72 hours. It protects these officers from retaliation for making good-faith reports and allocates $100,000 for training criminal justice officers on these new requirements.

Senate2025-03-25

S413Introduced

Right to Use Contraception

This bill adds a new law to North Carolina's General Statutes declaring that individuals have the right to use contraception to prevent pregnancy and that the state has no legitimate governmental interest in limiting access to contraception. The law becomes effective immediately upon passage.

Senate2025-03-25

S440Introduced

2025 Governor's Budget

This is North Carolina's biennial budget bill appropriating funds for state government operations from July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2027. It allocates approximately $34 billion in general funds annually, establishes funding for education, healthcare, transportation, corrections, and social services, and includes tax policy changes such as maintaining tax rates and creating new tax credits for working families and school supplies.

Senate2025-03-25

S473Introduced

Capital for Communities Act

This bill creates the Capital for Communities Special Fund, a new state fund that receives quarterly transfers of 3.5% from state treasurer holdings and special investment accounts when those accounts achieve a 7% or higher return. The fund would support economic development projects in North Carolina including affordable housing, childcare facilities, healthcare initiatives, medical research, workforce development, living-wage jobs, and nonprofit education facilities.

Senate2025-03-25

S448Introduced

Remove Employment Barriers/Ppl w Disabilities

This bill removes income and resource limits from North Carolina's Medicaid buy-in program for workers with disabilities, allowing people with disabilities to earn more money and accumulate savings while maintaining health coverage. The bill requests federal approval for these changes and appropriates $165,000 in state funding to support the program.

Senate2025-03-25

S435Introduced

Restore Master's Pay for Teachers & ISP

This bill restores salary supplements for teachers and instructional support personnel who hold master's degrees or doctorates by bringing back a 2013 salary policy. It appropriates $8 million in state funding for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to pay these education-based bonuses.

Senate2025-03-25

S459Introduced

Constitutional Repeal of Art. XIV Sec. 6

This bill proposes a constitutional amendment that would remove North Carolina's current constitutional definition of marriage as exclusively between one man and one woman. If passed by the General Assembly and approved by voters in November 2026, the amendment would take effect January 1, 2027.

Senate2025-03-25

S409Introduced

Ban Ghost Guns & Undetectable Firearms

This bill would make it illegal for most people in North Carolina to manufacture, sell, give away, transfer, use, or possess ghost guns (firearms without serial numbers) or undetectable firearms (guns that don't show up on metal detectors or are made entirely of plastic/3D-printed materials). Licensed federal firearm manufacturers would be exempt from this prohibition. Violations would be charged as Class I felonies.

Senate2025-03-25

S426Introduced

Student Borrowers' Bill of Rights

This bill establishes a licensing and regulatory system for student loan servicers in North Carolina under the Commissioner of Banks, creates protections for student loan borrowers through a "Student Borrowers' Bill of Rights," and establishes a Student Loan Ombudsman position to assist borrowers and investigate complaints.

Senate2025-03-25

S392Introduced

Safeguard Fair Elections

This bill creates new criminal penalties for voter intimidation and threats against election officials, requires election certifications to be based on factual evidence, establishes standards for post-election audits, strengthens observer rights at polling places, protects election officials' personal information, and appropriates $2.25 million for election security training and threat monitoring.

Senate2025-03-25

S453Introduced

Homebuyer Fairness & Protection Act

This bill limits the amount of 'due diligence funds' (nonrefundable money paid to sellers upon offer acceptance) to 1% of the purchase price in residential real estate transactions, making any higher amounts void and unenforceable. It also appropriates $10 million to the North Carolina Housing Coalition to support homebuyer education services.

Senate2025-03-25

S457Introduced

Automatic Voter Registration

This bill establishes automatic voter registration at NC Division of Motor Vehicles offices (starting January 1, 2026), public agencies, community colleges, and UNC system universities (starting January 1, 2027). Eligible citizens would be automatically registered to vote unless they actively decline, and the State Board of Elections must conduct an outreach campaign about these new procedures.

Senate2025-03-25

S452Introduced

End Child Marriage

This bill raises the minimum marriage age in North Carolina to 18 years old, eliminating the current ability for 16- and 17-year-olds to marry with parental consent or court approval. It removes existing exceptions that allowed minors to marry with permission from parents or judges.

Senate2025-03-25

S467Introduced

Right to Reproductive Freedom Act

This bill would repeal North Carolina's existing abortion restrictions and codify the legal standards from Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey into state law. It would allow abortion before fetal viability without undue burden, permit restrictions after viability except when necessary for the pregnant person's life or health, expand who can provide abortion services, and require state health insurance plans to cover abortion.

Senate2025-03-25

S383Introduced

Right to IVF

This bill protects access to assisted reproductive technology (ART) like in vitro fertilization (IVF) by prohibiting the state from limiting or interfering with patients' right to use ART or healthcare providers' right to offer it. The bill also specifies that fertilized eggs and embryos outside the uterus are not considered human beings under state law, and appropriates $500,000 annually to expand Medicaid maternal support services.

Senate2025-03-24

S358Introduced

Hate Crimes Prevention Act

This bill expands North Carolina's hate crimes laws by broadening the characteristics that qualify a crime as a hate crime (adding gender identity, gender expression, and disability to existing protections), increasing criminal penalties for hate crimes, creating a state database to track hate crime statistics, and requiring law enforcement and prosecutors to receive training on identifying and prosecuting hate crimes.

Senate2025-03-24

S360Introduced

Healthy Students - A Nurse in Every School

This bill requires every public school in North Carolina to have at least one full-time, permanent school nurse starting in the 2025-2026 school year. The bill applies to traditional public schools, charter schools, regional schools, and laboratory schools, and appropriates $95 million in state funding to help schools meet this requirement.

Senate2025-03-24

S381Introduced

Equality for All

This bill expands North Carolina's nondiscrimination protections across housing, employment, public accommodations, credit, insurance, education, and jury service. It adds sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, military/veteran status, and genetic information to the list of protected characteristics in state law, and establishes complaint procedures through the Human Relations Commission.

Senate2025-03-24

S379Introduced

Senior Care Assurance Act

The Senior Care Assurance Act expands healthcare access for North Carolina seniors aged 65 and older through increased Medicaid coverage for preventive and chronic disease management, telehealth services, home-based care, and caregiver support. The bill appropriates approximately $44.15 million in recurring annual funds (2025-2027) for grant programs, navigation services, home safety modifications, and a caregiver assistance program that provides monthly stipends up to $500.

Senate2025-03-24

S384Introduced

2025 Safe Drinking Water Act

This bill requires North Carolina's Commission for Public Health to establish maximum contaminant levels (MCLs) for harmful chemicals in drinking water by October 15, 2025. The bill specifically mandates MCLs for PFAS, PFOA, PFOS, hexavalent chromium, and 1,4-Dioxane, and requires annual reviews to update standards based on the latest science.

Senate2025-03-24

S366Introduced

Increase Medicaid PCS and PDN Rates

This bill increases Medicaid reimbursement rates for two types of in-home health services: personal care services (to $7.50 per 15-minute increment) and private duty nursing services (to $16.25 per 15-minute increment). The bill appropriates approximately $139 million in state funds over two years, which will also unlock approximately $254 million in federal matching funds, with these rate increases taking effect July 1, 2025.

Senate2025-03-24

S352Introduced

Community Health Center Grants for LARCs

This bill appropriates $2.5 million per year for fiscal years 2025-2027 to the Department of Health and Human Services to provide grants to nonprofit community health centers. These centers would use the funds to purchase and distribute long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs) to uninsured and low-income patients.

Senate2025-03-20

S351Introduced

Right to Start Act

This bill allows new corporations, S corporations, and business entities (like LLCs and partnerships) that are less than five years old and have net income under $5,000 to defer their state income taxes for one year. It also encourages state agencies to hire in-state contractors less than five years old and requires the Department of Administration to track and report data on contracts awarded to these newer contractors.

Senate2025-03-20

S353Introduced

The Second Chance Coding Act

This bill requires North Carolina's Division of Juvenile Justice to create a program teaching coding, programming, and computer skills to incarcerated youth in youth development centers. The program would include specialized courses, industry certifications, mentorship, internships, and job placement assistance, with $250,000 in funding and implementation required by January 1, 2026.

Senate2025-03-20

S348Introduced

Home Comfort Act

The Home Comfort Act appropriates $49.25 million over the 2025-2027 biennium to help low-income seniors (65+) age safely at home through three main programs: grants up to $10,000 for home modifications like ramps and bathroom improvements, funding for in-home support services and caregiver assistance stipends, and a statewide hotline and resource guide to help seniors navigate available programs.

Senate2025-03-20

S350Introduced

Marijuana Justice and Reinvestment Act

This bill would legalize and regulate cannabis for adults 21 and older in North Carolina, similar to alcohol. It establishes a licensing system for cannabis businesses, allows adults to possess and grow limited amounts for personal use, creates funds to reinvest in communities harmed by prior cannabis prohibition, establishes a medical cannabis program, and automatically expunges past cannabis convictions that would now be legal.

Senate2025-03-20

S347Introduced

Supporting Parents Who Serve

This bill allows North Carolina legislators to vote through an appointed proxy for up to 16 weeks following childbirth, adoption, stillbirth, or miscarriage. The legislator must watch the session remotely via audio or video stream, file a voting designation form, and a party leader casts the vote on their behalf after other chamber members have voted.

Senate2025-03-20

S338Introduced

NC Farmland and Military Protection Act

This bill prohibits foreign governments designated as adversarial by the U.S. Department of Commerce from purchasing, leasing, or holding interests in North Carolina agricultural land or land within 25 miles of specified military installations. The bill includes a $50,000 appropriation for farmland inventory and becomes effective January 1, 2026.

Senate2025-03-20

S324Introduced

2025 Safe Drinking Water Act

This bill requires North Carolina's Commission for Public Health to establish maximum contaminant levels (safety limits) for harmful chemicals in drinking water, including PFAS, PFOA, PFOS, hexavalent chromium, and 1,4-dioxane. The Commission must complete initial rulemaking by October 15, 2025, and annually review new scientific evidence to update these safety standards.

Senate2025-03-19

S325Introduced

Create Dept. of Housing and Comm. Development

This bill creates a new cabinet-level Department of Housing and Community Development in North Carolina state government. The department would be divided into four sections: Operations, Community Development, Housing, and a Policy and Legislative Office, with a governing board and an initial appropriation of $30 million.

Senate2025-03-19

S323Introduced

Student Health and Responsibility Act

This bill establishes a three-year Safer Sex Supplies Grant Program that provides $9.6 million annually to UNC institutions, community colleges, and public high schools to distribute free condoms and lubricants to students. The program includes funding for health department coordination and requires participating schools to establish student health advisory committees and report on program outcomes through 2028.

Senate2025-03-19

S322Introduced

Utility Worker Protection Act

This bill adds a new offense to North Carolina law that makes assaulting a utility or communications worker a Class 1 misdemeanor when the worker is readily identifiable (wearing company uniform or logo) and performing their job duties. The bill groups this offense with other enhanced assault penalties, such as assaults on sports officials, that already carry Class 1 misdemeanor charges.

Senate2025-03-19

S317Introduced

Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act

This bill creates a new legal process for partitioning 'heirs property'—land inherited within families that has no written agreement governing its division. When property meets the definition of heirs property, courts must follow specific steps including determining fair market value through appraisal, allowing cotenants to buy out those wanting to sell, and preferring to divide the property physically (partition in kind) rather than force a sale, unless division would cause substantial harm.

Senate2025-03-18

S320Introduced

LEO Special Separation Allowance Options

This bill creates a second calculation option for the special separation allowance (a monthly payment) that state and local law enforcement officers receive when they retire after 30 years of service. Officers who qualify would be able to choose between two different formulas for calculating their allowance amount, with the choice being permanent and made before their first payment.

Senate2025-03-18

S304Introduced

Reenact EITC

This bill restores North Carolina's state Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), which provides a tax credit to low- and moderate-income working individuals and families based on the federal EITC. The credit would be set at 10% of the federal credit amount for tax years beginning in 2025 and beyond.

Senate2025-03-18

S226Introduced

Align Benefits for Firefighters with Cancer

This bill expands death benefits for firefighters who die from cancer by including any cancer that qualified them for the state's Firefighters' Cancer Insurance Program in the definition of deaths 'killed in the line of duty.' It also makes the cancer insurance program permanent and allocates $2 million annually for related death benefits.

Senate2025-03-17

S211Introduced

Reenact the Earned Income Tax Credit

This bill restores North Carolina's Earned Income Tax Credit, which expired in 2014. The credit would allow eligible workers who claim the federal Earned Income Tax Credit to receive a state tax credit equal to 5% of their federal credit amount, and any credit exceeding their state tax liability would be refunded to them.

Senate2025-03-03

S157Introduced

Funds For Johnson C. Smith Tech Project

This bill appropriates $100,000 in state funds to Johnson C. Smith University for a one-time grant in fiscal year 2025-2026. The money will support the university's Inclusive Tech-Innovation Pilot Project, which aims to use broadband technology to promote economic growth and community development in the surrounding area.

Senate2025-02-26

S172Introduced

STIP Grant Anticipation Notes

This bill allows North Carolina local governments to borrow money through special 'grant anticipation notes' to speed up transportation projects that are scheduled for state funding under the State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP). The borrowed money would be repaid once the state provides the promised funding, with safeguards requiring an agreement with the Department of Transportation and approval from the Local Government Commission.

Senate2025-02-26

S135Introduced

Expand Homestead Exclusion Inc. Elig. Limit

This bill increases the income eligibility limit for North Carolina's elderly or disabled property tax homestead exclusion from $25,000 to $48,000, effective July 1, 2025. After 2026, the limit will adjust annually based on Social Security cost-of-living adjustments.

Senate2025-02-25

S138Introduced

Restore Down-Zoning Auth./Mecklenburg Co

This bill restores the ability of local governments in Mecklenburg County and its municipalities to initiate down-zoning (reducing allowed building density or uses on land) without needing written consent from all affected property owners. It reverses a restriction imposed in December 2024 and applies retroactively to restore previously adopted ordinances.

Senate2025-02-25

S139Introduced

Restore State Emp/Teacher Retiree Med Benefit

This bill restores medical benefits for state employees and teachers who began service on or after January 1, 2021, by repealing a 2017 law that eliminated those benefits for this group. The bill allocates $500,000 for fiscal year 2025-2026 and $2 million for fiscal year 2026-2027 to cover the increased costs to the State Health Plan.

Senate2025-02-25

S128Introduced

Heroes Homestead Act

This bill increases the property tax homestead exclusion for disabled veterans in North Carolina from $45,000 to $76,500 of their home's appraised value. This means disabled veterans would pay property taxes on a smaller portion of their home's value, resulting in lower tax bills starting in 2026.

Senate2025-02-24

S134Introduced

Inclusionary Zoning/Workforce Housing Funds

This bill allows local governments in North Carolina to use inclusionary zoning policies to increase affordable housing options. It also appropriates $10 million in state funding to the Housing Finance Agency for a Workforce Housing Loan Program starting July 1, 2025.

Senate2025-02-24

S107Introduced

Judge Joe John Nonpartisan Jud. Elections Act

This bill changes how North Carolina elects judges by returning to nonpartisan elections (without party labels) for Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, superior court, and district court judges. It also reestablishes a public campaign financing system for judicial candidates who voluntarily accept spending limits and demonstrate public support through small donations.

Senate2025-02-18

S103Introduced

Make NC School Calendars Great Again

This bill allows local school boards in North Carolina to start the school year earlier than currently permitted, with the opening date potentially moving from no earlier than the Monday closest to August 26 to as early as the Monday closest to August 19, if the State Board of Education approves based on a showing of 'good cause.' The bill maintains existing rules about school closing dates and minimum instructional days.

Senate2025-02-17

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Sponsored Bills (54)

My Power Bill Is Too High

Affordable Housing Efficiency Grant Program

Consumer Privacy Act

Utility Profit Oversight Act

NC Children's Safe Screens Act/Funds

Funds for Pineville Pedestrian Beacon

Extreme Heat/Ban Utility Disconnections

Adopt Official Hip-Hop Song

Power Bill Protection/Large Load Tariff

Community Scale Weatherization + Health

Critical Funds for Mecklenburg County

NC Small Business Capital & Jobs Act

AI in Ed Task Force and Standards

Town of Pineville/Reserve Police

Grid Utilization

Janell Green Smith Maternal Health Acc. Act

NC CROWN Act

Citizens' Tax Relief Circuit Breaker Mods

Expanding Insurance Coverage/Fertility Care

The BUMP Act

Government Modernization/Funds

The Hustle Act

Funds for Orphan Roads in Mecklenburg Co

Clean Energy Workforce & Innovation Act

Informational Literacy in Schools

Cybersecurity and Quantum Resilience Study

NC Utility Worker Protection Act

Expand & Enhance the Teaching Fellows Program

Equal Pay Act

Healthy Families & Workplaces/Paid Sick Leave

NC Economic Progress and Well Being

Voter Fraud Prevention Act

Study Automation and the Workforce

Funds for Pineville Pedestrian Beacon

Community Infra. and Resilience Tax Credit

Steele Creek Investment and Improvement Act

Adopt Official Hip Hop Song

Digital Content Provenance Initiative/Funds

Government Modernization

Safe Schools Transparency Act

Funds for Charlotte Nature Museum

The Child Promise Act

Revise Various Laws/Work 1st Cash Assistance

Healthy Families & Workplaces/Paid Sick Leave

AI Innovation Trust Fund

AI Learning Agenda

Consumer Privacy Act

Healthy Start NC

Baby Bond Trust Fund

Park South Station Traffic Citations

Town of Pineville/Reserve Police

SchCalFlex/Char-Meck/CC

NC CROWN Act

39th Senatorial District Local Act-1

Cosponsored Bills (136)

Medicaid Rebase

Repeal STI Cap on Light Rail/Fund Rail Safety

Carolina Housing Promise Act

No Budget, No Pay Act

Child Care Omnibus

Workforce Act of 2026

Protect Moms Who Serve

Lower Healthcare Costs

Protecting Workers in the Age of AI Act

School Meals for Every Child

Investing in North Carolina Act

Fully Fund School Psychologists & Counselors

Portable-Scale Solar Energy Devices

Safe Camps Act

Reenact EITC

Menopause Omnibus

Reenact the Earned Income Tax Credit

MELT Act: Support Immigrant Legal Defense

Kids Over Corporations Act

Increase Number of Magistrates/Mecklenburg

Keep Families Fed Act

School Mental Health Support Act